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the president's plan to create more clean energy jobs, responsible energy development, it is literally what the doctor ordered for all of us. let's make sure that we help this president on his commitment and plans when we marched to the white house today. on climate change, amigos, i have no doubt that with your commitment, your energy, your heart and soul -- si! si, se puede. si, se puede. >> one more time, i need your help. for those on the speaker stands -- get off. say it. for those on the speaker stands -- get off. those of the speaker stands -- get off. please. please. nice rally. [laughter] right now, we're going to have our little celebrity. it's not only about the media. from the streets to the suites, but those who join us and have a great platform. give it up for nolan from "modern family." ♪give it up. and fighting in the streets, 2011 prize winner. keep pushing. on cue, just jump. let's jump. oh, yeah. come on. say no keystone pipeline. say no keystone pipeline. say no keystone pipeline. say no! you are awesome. thank you so much. >> on behalf of canada, i apologize. i'm
the president's plan to create more clean energy jobs, responsible energy development, it is literally what the doctor ordered for all of us. let's make sure that we help this president on his commitment and plans when we marched to the white house today. on climate change, amigos, i have no doubt that with your commitment, your energy, your heart and soul -- si! si, se puede. si, se puede. >> one more time, i need your help. for those on the speaker stands -- get off. say it. for those...
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of course solar and wind energy should be a part of our energy portfolio. but god also blessed america with abundant coal, oil and natural gas. instead of wasting more taxpayer money on so-called "clean energy" companies like solyndra, let's open up more federal lands for safe and responsible exploration. and let's reform our energy regulations so that they're reasonable and based on common sense. if we can grow our energy industry, it will make us energy independent, it will create middle class jobs and it will help bring manufacturing back from places like china. simplifying our tax code will also help the middle class, because it will make it easier for small businesses to hire and grow. and we agree with the president that we should lower our corporate tax rate, which is one of the highest in the world, so that companies will start bringing their money and their jobs back here from overseas. we can also help our economy grow if we have a legal immigration system that allows us to attract and assimilate the world's best and brightest. we need a responsib
of course solar and wind energy should be a part of our energy portfolio. but god also blessed america with abundant coal, oil and natural gas. instead of wasting more taxpayer money on so-called "clean energy" companies like solyndra, let's open up more federal lands for safe and responsible exploration. and let's reform our energy regulations so that they're reasonable and based on common sense. if we can grow our energy industry, it will make us energy independent, it will create...
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we can grow our energy industry, it will make us energy independent and it will help bring administering back from places like china. simplifying our tax code will also help the middle class because it will make it easier for smaller businesses to hire and grow. we agree with the president, we should lowerer our corporate tax rate so companies will bring their money and jobs back here from overseas. we can also help grow the economy if we have a legal immigration system that allows us to attack the best and brightest. -- attract the best and the brightest. first, we must follow through on the broken promises of the past to secure our borders and enforce our laws. helping the middle class grow also requires an education system that brings the skills that jobs entail. we need to incentivize local schools and career training. we need to give all parents, especially the parents with special needs to opportunity to spend their children to the school of their choice. because college tuition costs have grown so fast we need to change the way we pay for higher education. i believe in financial a
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and remorse -- these are all the motions that sat pure energy and do nothing productive. i do not look back. i look forward to what is on my plate each day. >> you have dissented in some of the court's most controversial and far-reaching decisions of the past couple of decades. i have in mind bush reverses course, the case that halted the balloting in the 2000 presidential election and citizens united, the case that invalidated the ban on corporate campaign expenditures. in cases such as these, cases where belote takes a sudden turn in a different direction in a high-profile area, do you ever fear for the court's reputation as a result of these kinds of decisions? as a follow-up, how difficult is it to participate in the deliberations and the one vote away from a very different results? >> first, let me comment on bush v gore. it was one-of-a-kind and the court has never site to that opinion -- crted @ opinion in any case and i hope it will forever remain that way. it happened, it is over, and that's it for bush v gore. [laughter] citizens united is something else. that w
and remorse -- these are all the motions that sat pure energy and do nothing productive. i do not look back. i look forward to what is on my plate each day. >> you have dissented in some of the court's most controversial and far-reaching decisions of the past couple of decades. i have in mind bush reverses course, the case that halted the balloting in the 2000 presidential election and citizens united, the case that invalidated the ban on corporate campaign expenditures. in cases such as...
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. >> and there's a lot of rhetorical energy spent around this building, appropriately so, making the point that we want to make sure we keep our commitments to those who have invested through a lifetime of social security and medicare. certainly a commitment i intend to keep. i know of no one on either side of the aisle who believes any differently. if you saw that number and saw that we were going to increase by 40% by 2023, but you also knew that we were going to increase our work force by 40%, by 2023, so that you had the same number of taxpayers putting -- footing the bill for those benefits, or at least per recipient, then you wouldn't be neerm as alarmed by that number as you might be in a scenario that's far different. so i was hoping you could comment just a minute about maybe the historical trend of how many taxpayers we've had per recipient in those programs and where we're going in that same trend. >> yes, congressman. so, we project that the labor force will grow much more slowly in the coming decade than it has grown over the past several decades. and there are two main
. >> and there's a lot of rhetorical energy spent around this building, appropriately so, making the point that we want to make sure we keep our commitments to those who have invested through a lifetime of social security and medicare. certainly a commitment i intend to keep. i know of no one on either side of the aisle who believes any differently. if you saw that number and saw that we were going to increase by 40% by 2023, but you also knew that we were going to increase our work force...
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green energy is important, and we should pursue it. thank you so much. guest: the federal government does not -- the department of energy does not need to be putting money into programs for companies like solyndra and others -- they have gone bankrupt the. have gotten hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for loan programs and all of those companies that got those loans with that taunt of money have gone bankrupt. something is wrong with the vetting process and something is wrong with technology that it is not working in the marketplace. i had solar panels on my house in tennessee as a test keys thursday as a test case 30 + years ago. they're looking to see if we could get enough heat units per day in solar panels. we never got enough to run our hot water heater. we were happy to do it and see if it worked. we are saying let's bring things to the marketplace that will work but let's let the market decided it does not have to be taxpayer money that is being used as venture capital to see if unproven technologies are going to work. host: "from the washi
green energy is important, and we should pursue it. thank you so much. guest: the federal government does not -- the department of energy does not need to be putting money into programs for companies like solyndra and others -- they have gone bankrupt the. have gotten hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for loan programs and all of those companies that got those loans with that taunt of money have gone bankrupt. something is wrong with the vetting process and something is wrong with...
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some universities are credited in the high-tech energy sector and built an education bridge that will have an exchange program between the native americans and german universities. many of the foreign companies -- they do not have to take advantage of a lot of the advantages in manufacturing on native american land. i would like to lay out a strategy about how we can bring it to the attention of the thousands of european companies, to work with native american tribes. guest: thank you very much. that is encouraging. i want to hear more about that project. it talks about building a bridge of knowledge. that is something that is exciting and some that we need. i would encourage you to contact us and you can contact me. i would be glad to visit with you and figure out how we can get together at some point. host: ncai.org. jefferson keel, thank you for talking with our viewers. that does it for today. join us tomorrow for more debate over public policy. your phone calls and your facebook comments. thank you for watching. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions co
some universities are credited in the high-tech energy sector and built an education bridge that will have an exchange program between the native americans and german universities. many of the foreign companies -- they do not have to take advantage of a lot of the advantages in manufacturing on native american land. i would like to lay out a strategy about how we can bring it to the attention of the thousands of european companies, to work with native american tribes. guest: thank you very...
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fewer restrictions on accessing energy under federal lands that can increase domestic energy supply. these are among the solutions we need, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. waxman: 22 members of the house have banded together to create a safe climate conference to end the conspiracy of silence in this house of representatives about the dangers of climate change and the republican denial of its existence and their rejection of the science. we are committing to talk every single day on the house floor about the urgent need to address climate change. president obama is leading the way. he says we must respond to climate change because to do otherwise would be to betray our children and future generations. we are ready to get to work. we understand the threat facing our children and we know our nation has the know-
fewer restrictions on accessing energy under federal lands that can increase domestic energy supply. these are among the solutions we need, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. waxman: 22 members of the house have...
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continues to widen the constellation of challenges in which he has applied his extraordinary talents and energy. limits on religious freedom, every impediment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. after president of the united states, he could only become president of the world. the praise the respect he receives from both sides of the aisle says big volumes about his character. the man he defeated, former president george h. w. bush said, if clinton were the titanic, the iceberg would have sunk. it has less to do with this sharp political acumen and more to do with his deeply held values and ideals. bill clinton believes in an america that is tied in a single garment of destiny. our fates are bound together and we should work together. a man from hope continues to work to give hope to millions. bill clinton has taught us that while hope is a powerful motivator, it takes more than that to build the future we dream of. as we revitalize our discussion about how to renew the american dream, i ask you to join me in welcoming a great proponent of the american dream, the honorable william j
continues to widen the constellation of challenges in which he has applied his extraordinary talents and energy. limits on religious freedom, every impediment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. after president of the united states, he could only become president of the world. the praise the respect he receives from both sides of the aisle says big volumes about his character. the man he defeated, former president george h. w. bush said, if clinton were the titanic, the iceberg...
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most agree with the goal of energy independence and continuing the energy revolution. as part of an all-of-the-above strategy we need to domestically produce more oil, coal, natural gas and renewable energy like hydropower by utilizing currently untapped resources -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mr. whitfield: i yield the gentlelady three additional minutes. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you very much. there was a recent study that showed we could double hydropower production in this country without building a new dam. simply by investing in new technologies, new turbines, only 3% of the dams in the country produce electricity. we could also in this process create 700,000 jobs. unleashing american ingenuity to increase hydropower production will lower energy costs and help create thousands of jobs. mr. chairman, i urge all of my colleagues to support american energy, support h.r. 267 and i thank you and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from new mexico is recognized. mr. lujan: i yield
most agree with the goal of energy independence and continuing the energy revolution. as part of an all-of-the-above strategy we need to domestically produce more oil, coal, natural gas and renewable energy like hydropower by utilizing currently untapped resources -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mr. whitfield: i yield the gentlelady three additional minutes. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you very much. there was a recent study that showed we could double hydropower...
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amplifying it is how you find the energy, and energy is what you can harness. if we have people and they are excited about what they're working on every day and they realize the next big hurdle is mobile, you can take that energy around the culture and find fun ways to apply it that can be really impactful. >> what are some of the things you found that we will see over the next few months? >> i do not like to talk about things before we do them. i do think a lot of the keys is what i have already talked about. there is a real opportunity to help guide people's daily habits in terms of the content they read. that is something we're really working on. all these daily habits, these -- news, sports, games, answers, groups -- these are the types of things where we have been underinvested in them. a little love will go a long way. yahoo! groups has not been refreshed in 11 years. it will go a long way if we start to modernize some of these products. >> when people get excited about technology, they forget about the role of design. -- now people think about user- gene
amplifying it is how you find the energy, and energy is what you can harness. if we have people and they are excited about what they're working on every day and they realize the next big hurdle is mobile, you can take that energy around the culture and find fun ways to apply it that can be really impactful. >> what are some of the things you found that we will see over the next few months? >> i do not like to talk about things before we do them. i do think a lot of the keys is what...
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>> i would put a lot of energy to hide developing an energy -- a relationship where i could push back on china with things we think are unfair. we have done that in china and will continue to do that. >> senator to me. >> good to see you. i wanted to follow-up on the conversation we had in my office a week or so ago. i am concerned about the applications the effects of this huge new series of regulations, most of which emanate from god rank -- from dodd-frank, we have seen regulations and they are not close to being finished. when jamie diamond question chairman bernanke about the cumulative effect of all of these new regulations on the availability of credit and job growth, chairman for next -- chairman bernanke acknowledged i do not really know what the cumulative effect would be and do not have a way of understanding that. you will arguably be the most powerful financial regulator in the world and have a great deal of influence. what are your thoughts about how we ought to think about the unintended and adverse consequences of this massive new wave of regulations. i am particularly
>> i would put a lot of energy to hide developing an energy -- a relationship where i could push back on china with things we think are unfair. we have done that in china and will continue to do that. >> senator to me. >> good to see you. i wanted to follow-up on the conversation we had in my office a week or so ago. i am concerned about the applications the effects of this huge new series of regulations, most of which emanate from god rank -- from dodd-frank, we have seen...
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guest: no one is saying green energy is not important. what you are saying is the federal government -- the department of energy does not need to be putting money into programs, where companies like solyndra these countries have all gone bankrupt. you have hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. all of those companies that got those loans -- something is wrong with the process. something is wrong with the technology. it is not working in the marketplace. i had solar panels on my house. 30 something years ago, tba was looking for people to see if they could have peak units per day in solar panels. we never got enough to run our home water heater. we were happy to do it to see if it works. we are saying, let us put things in the marketplace that are going to work, but let us let the market decide. it does not need to be taxpayer money, used as venture capital, to see if the technologies are going to work. host: "the washington post" says president obama is going to go for a clean energy standard, which would require 80% from clean sources
guest: no one is saying green energy is not important. what you are saying is the federal government -- the department of energy does not need to be putting money into programs, where companies like solyndra these countries have all gone bankrupt. you have hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. all of those companies that got those loans -- something is wrong with the process. something is wrong with the technology. it is not working in the marketplace. i had solar panels on my house. 30...
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from twitter -- might we hear about climate change in energy issues? guest: i thank you will hear about it. energy is a big thing and the caller also mentioned education and i think you will hear about those two things. in the context of growing our economy is how you will hear it. they are talking about vocational training and making college affordable and having pre-k and also that we will hear some things about clean jobs and clean energy. host: omaha, neb., independent, welcome. caller: thanks for cspan. my thing is -- first of all, i am a former marine. i am hispanic. i keep watching these guys talk about cuts and spending cuts and nancy pelosi -- i don't know what planet she is on, but she says there is no spending problem. i see the path of the grease and our country. it is california, new york, illinois, baltimore, detroit and they are not addressing what is happening in those states. that is the reason i jumped from the democratic party to the republican party. dennis hastert dropped and earmark a bomb, a $10 million on his business interests
from twitter -- might we hear about climate change in energy issues? guest: i thank you will hear about it. energy is a big thing and the caller also mentioned education and i think you will hear about those two things. in the context of growing our economy is how you will hear it. they are talking about vocational training and making college affordable and having pre-k and also that we will hear some things about clean jobs and clean energy. host: omaha, neb., independent, welcome. caller:...
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amplifying it is how you find the energy, and energy is what you can harness. if we have people and they are excited about what they're working on every day and they realize the next big hurdle is mobile, you can take that energy around the culture and find fun ways to apply it that can be really impactful. >> what are some of the things you found that we will see over the next few months? >> i do not like to talk about things before we do them. i do think a lot of the keys is what i have already talked about. there is a real opportunity to help guide people's daily habits in terms of the content they read. that is something we're really working on. all these daily habits, these -- news, sports, games, answers, groups -- these are the types of things where we have been underinvested in them. a little love will go a long way. yahoo! groups has not been refreshed in 11 years. it will go a long way if we start to modernize some of these products. >> when people get excited about technology, they forget about the role of design. going back to some of those routes a
amplifying it is how you find the energy, and energy is what you can harness. if we have people and they are excited about what they're working on every day and they realize the next big hurdle is mobile, you can take that energy around the culture and find fun ways to apply it that can be really impactful. >> what are some of the things you found that we will see over the next few months? >> i do not like to talk about things before we do them. i do think a lot of the keys is what...
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the president wants to impose a national cap and trade energy tax. i would hope that senate democrats would take it up. the president wants more stimulus spending. i would expect the united states senate to take it up. the president wants more tax hikes that destroy jobs, then his democrat allies in the senate ought to take it up. this isn't the agenda that many americans are looking for. and i think many in the president's own party won't support those ideas. in the house we'll continue to focus on what the american people's top priorities are, creating jobs and cutting spending. for the last two years the house has done its work. we have passed legislation to tackle the tough challenges that america faces only to see our senate colleagues do nothing. well, those days are over. the house will continue to meet our obligations, but the senate democrats must begin to do their work. that's why we passed the no budget, no pay act requiring the senate to pass a budget for the first time in four years. and that's why we are going to insist that they finall
the president wants to impose a national cap and trade energy tax. i would hope that senate democrats would take it up. the president wants more stimulus spending. i would expect the united states senate to take it up. the president wants more tax hikes that destroy jobs, then his democrat allies in the senate ought to take it up. this isn't the agenda that many americans are looking for. and i think many in the president's own party won't support those ideas. in the house we'll continue to...
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i do energy and water. we have tried to find out what does this mean for the lab ? our staff has spent a lot of time try to figure out where the cuts are and who will suffer them. everybody is concerned that what is going to happen to them and we can give no one a straight answer. it is a bad phenomenon and it should and before it catches hold of america and as a great deal of damage. let me ask about one thing. for california, as happens to involve the only shipyard on the west coast. nasco in san dieog. 3,500 jobs. we worked hard to achieve long lead financing for three mobile platform ships. we have the financing. what will happen to nasco and the financing? >> not good things. i'm concerned about it. there is a continuing resolution program that i mentioned earlier, the authority to proceed on the basis that we planned in shipbuilding. the sequester a reduction in budgetary caps over the long run will have a huge effect on our separate building -- on our shipbuilding industry. i am very concerned about that. there is no question there will be a major restructuri
i do energy and water. we have tried to find out what does this mean for the lab ? our staff has spent a lot of time try to figure out where the cuts are and who will suffer them. everybody is concerned that what is going to happen to them and we can give no one a straight answer. it is a bad phenomenon and it should and before it catches hold of america and as a great deal of damage. let me ask about one thing. for california, as happens to involve the only shipyard on the west coast. nasco in...
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school modernization would be retrofitted in schools to make them more energy efficient, upgrading technology, upgrading the building. host: this is don from florida on the democrats' line. caller: good morning. i am don. i was born and raised in milwaukee, wisconsin, and born in 1928. i would like to address a question to your guest today about the principal problem, at both the preschool, high- school, and college level. if we understand our founding fathers, they established that education was a very important principle. as a result, the educational system established in the united states was funded at the local level through property funding t into institutions of higher learning to help subsidize and train the people who graduated from high school. host: my question is, does the speaker, who is a record -- who is a writer for an editorial magazine, believed that the source of funding that is coming to the federal government by the very nature of it, which is moved to washington through the income tax code, and then be redistributed out of washington to preschools and i schools -- there a
school modernization would be retrofitted in schools to make them more energy efficient, upgrading technology, upgrading the building. host: this is don from florida on the democrats' line. caller: good morning. i am don. i was born and raised in milwaukee, wisconsin, and born in 1928. i would like to address a question to your guest today about the principal problem, at both the preschool, high- school, and college level. if we understand our founding fathers, they established that education...
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down our energy costs and we have the biggest market in the world. and if we try to improve our infrastructure a little bit more, then we are going to be that more competitive. i want to be honest with you, we aren't go to go bring back every job that has been lost to automation in the last decade. i was talking to some of the guys showing me their facilities who had been in manufacturing for 20 years and they explained how things have changed. used to be -- wanted to do the kind of stuff you guys are doing here. everything was done manually. now you have a computer and punching in stuff. so it's changed. and that means you can just produce a lot more with fewer people. but there are things we can do right now to accelerate the resurgence of american manufacturing. number one, we can create more centers for high tech manufacturing in america. last year, my administration created our first manufacturing innovation institute. we put it in youngstown, ohio, which had been hard hit when manufacturing started going overseas. and so you had a one shuttered
down our energy costs and we have the biggest market in the world. and if we try to improve our infrastructure a little bit more, then we are going to be that more competitive. i want to be honest with you, we aren't go to go bring back every job that has been lost to automation in the last decade. i was talking to some of the guys showing me their facilities who had been in manufacturing for 20 years and they explained how things have changed. used to be -- wanted to do the kind of stuff you...
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we lack a comprehensive approach to climate change, energy, transportation, medicare, social security, defense spending, immigration reform, gun violence, and even our postal system. we need to find that urgency to start to create a sensible energy policy that confronts climate change and reduces our reliance on foreign oil. we need that urgency to formulate a transportation plan so that states can address their crumbling infrastructure. and local businesses can get back to work. we need that urgency of now to reconfigure our security policy. make sensible cuts and fashion a force that prepares us for conflicts of the future and not the past. we need the urgency of now to make sensible changes to social security and medicare to ensure the vitality of these programs for generations to come. batered -- it will reward us with a more sensible energy policy, good roads, and a sustainable social welfare system. we will be rewarded with the stable economy and reduced market volatility. we cannot wait to act. we are borrowing 42 cents for every dollar we spend. we have to take sensible steps
we lack a comprehensive approach to climate change, energy, transportation, medicare, social security, defense spending, immigration reform, gun violence, and even our postal system. we need to find that urgency to start to create a sensible energy policy that confronts climate change and reduces our reliance on foreign oil. we need that urgency to formulate a transportation plan so that states can address their crumbling infrastructure. and local businesses can get back to work. we need that...
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just to give you a few examples, nine or 10 months ago the department of energy built about 12 new buildings over here on the mall across from the neverson memorial for a solar exhibit. it stayed there for about 10 months and was torn down. no one really knows how much did that cost. . each year we give grants to other countries, including china, to help them with their environmental problems at a time when we have to borrow money from china to meet our obligations. and then as mr. jones mentioned earlier, in afghanistan we're spending $28 million a day. so i think it would be beneficial to the american people to prepare an annual declaration of the national debt to be made available to the congress and the public. this would show the american people how much we owed last year, how much we owe this year and what the projected debt is for the future. i will tell you that we have over -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. whitfield: well, my time has expired. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, for five mi
just to give you a few examples, nine or 10 months ago the department of energy built about 12 new buildings over here on the mall across from the neverson memorial for a solar exhibit. it stayed there for about 10 months and was torn down. no one really knows how much did that cost. . each year we give grants to other countries, including china, to help them with their environmental problems at a time when we have to borrow money from china to meet our obligations. and then as mr. jones...
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it is how we figure out clean forms of energy, make medical advances that save lives, and ultimately reduce the cost of health care, develop the technologies that defend our country, and make our fighting men and women safer and advance our economy. loore than half, more than half of economic growth in this country since wor the e war ii s resulted from technological advances, none of which would have been impossible or almost none of which would have been possible without the basic research funded by the federal government. sometimes this sounds very theoretical, but we live in it every day. let me hold up for you this morning this fetching little i6 c13 one. cannot get along without this thing. rt eou all have one in your pocket. or perhaps you're looking at it right now and not listening to me. which is pretty standard for us professors, so it is not surprising. this device that you have is in your pocket, and i have in min ad would not exist were it not for federally funded research. let me show you why. the gps that enables your device to guide you to your destination wou the e
it is how we figure out clean forms of energy, make medical advances that save lives, and ultimately reduce the cost of health care, develop the technologies that defend our country, and make our fighting men and women safer and advance our economy. loore than half, more than half of economic growth in this country since wor the e war ii s resulted from technological advances, none of which would have been impossible or almost none of which would have been possible without the basic research...
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looked around and realized i was the only woman in the room and i looked at assembled scientists and energy experts and remember thinking, you know, i bet i'm the only person in this room who regularly uses a washing machine. we're talking about front loading versus side loading and i read in the consumer reports the new regulations screwed up washing machines, i tried, i'm sorry. but i do think women bring that practical perspective to the policy debate. they asked me to talk about how i got here and got involved. i have to tell you, thinking back driving into campus, it started here and growing up i never dreamed i would one day work at the white house. i wanted to be an olympic swimmer but had more heart than talent and that didn't work out. when i came to s.m.u., i knew i was really good at two things, arguing and asking a lot of questions. and i used to drive people crazy because i asked so many questions. teachers used to complain to my parents i asked too many questions and my mother thought certain i would become a lawyer. here at 1. m.u. -- here at s.m.u., my curiosity led me to en
looked around and realized i was the only woman in the room and i looked at assembled scientists and energy experts and remember thinking, you know, i bet i'm the only person in this room who regularly uses a washing machine. we're talking about front loading versus side loading and i read in the consumer reports the new regulations screwed up washing machines, i tried, i'm sorry. but i do think women bring that practical perspective to the policy debate. they asked me to talk about how i got...